Privacy vs Security: Understanding Key Differences
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Privacy vs Security: Understanding Key Differences

Corrected by Melik Can Sariyer · on When Notes Fly · 11 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Explore how security aims to protect against threats while privacy regulates data collection and usage.

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−a 2019 study published in Nature Communications demonstrated that 87% of Amer…
+research by Latanya Sweeney demonstrated that 87% of Americans could be re-id…
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−Subsequent research by de Montjoye et al. (2015) confirmed that four spatiote…
+Subsequent research by de Montjoye et al. (2013) confirmed that four spatiote…
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−first proposal by Craig Gentry in 2009
+first proposal by Rivest, Adleman, and Dertouzos in 1978, with the first full…

Why this is better

Three corrections: the 87%%/three-attribute re-identification finding is Latanya Sweeney's (circa 2000), not the 2019 Nature Communications study; the mobility-dataset four-points/95%% finding is from 'Unique in the Crowd', Scientific Reports 2013, not 2015; and homomorphic encryption was first proposed by Rivest, Adleman & Dertouzos (1978), with Gentry (2009) producing the first full construction rather than the first proposal. Verified the live article body already reflects all three corrections. The faq field does not mention any of Sweeney, de Montjoye, Rivest, or Gentry, so no secondary fix was needed there.

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